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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67637	Suspiria Ecclesiae & reipublica Anglicanae The sighs of the Church and common-wealth of England, or, An exhortation to humiliation with a help thereunto, setting forth the great corruptions and mseries [sic] of this present church and state with the remedies that are to be applyed thereunto / by Thomas Warmstry.	Warmstry, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1648 (1648)	Wing W891; ESTC R27115	155,583	724

Charme from the Almighty that may restore you to an youthfull condition if it may be or else at least provide for your latter end And oh that I had now the Spirit of Lamentation that was once so eloquent in the Prophet Ieremy wherewith he seemes to sing the funerall dirge of Ierusalem in those holy straines of bleeding compassion which are recorded in his Booke of sorrowes for that people Read that holy Booke of his with a serious heart and think upon England and would you not imagine that those miseries of the Jewes were but the type and figure of ours in this Nation scarce a peece that he drawes to hang about that hearse but seemes to be a fit Embleme to set forth unto us the mournefull Estate of our English Common-wealth at this time Lamen 1.1 The solitary widdow wherewith the holy Prophet adornes the frontispeice of that sad Poeme he hath there composed what is it but an apt resemblance of the wretchednesse of England at this time Deprived of the presence and comfort of her politicke Husband The Father of this great Family being chased away from the care of his Houshold and the poore Widdow become a prey to her owne ungracious children of whom she may even cry out as once God of Israel by the Prophet Isa 1.2 I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me When we read there of a great Princesse among the Nations Do we not see the splendour of our former condition whilst the light of the Lords countenance shined upon us and we were the envy and glory of other people And when wee cast our eye upon that Princesse reduced unto servitude and become tributarie doe wee not behold the very Image of that sad exchange of perpetuall and uncomfortable slavery which we have made for our former freedome whilst wee feele Excise Free-quarter a fifth and twentieth part and divers other greedy devourers like so many harpies eating up the flesh and picking the very bores of the poore people whilst wee can finde no reliefe for the present The Lawes whereby our Liberties should be secured and preserved being trampled under foot notwithstanding all the Protestations and Covenants wherein men have bound themselves to preserve both the Nurse and the Child both the Lawes of the Kingdome and the Liberties of the Subject and almost as little hope appearing of any ease or remedy for the future Vers 2. There we find Ierusalem weeping sore in the night when others eyes are safe and a●● rest within their Canopies Here were restlesse fountaines of sorrow but we cannot find any such streames flowing amongst us for the most part and we have cause to weepe the more because we weepe so little whilst these wells are dry we want their water to quench the rage of that devouring flame which is about our eares But though we weepe not as she did we are as comfort lesse as she was may I not complaine for England as well as he for Ierusalem That amongst all her lovers she hath none to comfort her all her friends they at least that pretended to be her greatest her only friends have dealt treacherously with her All their faire promises of safety and Honour and Riches and Libertie and of Religion it selfe have proved but Golden shadowes specious baites with bearded hookes hidden in the midst of them The faire baits are all swallowed up in the confusion that is still more and more upon us and the hooke is only left sticking in our bowels Vers 3. The Lamenter of Israel complaines That Iudah was gone into captivitie and that she was sent to dwell among the heathen and found no rest And we may truly complaine That Captivity is come unto us and hath overtaken us in our owne Land and that the heathen dwell among us even heathen Christians which are the worst heathens in the world How many are there amongst us that are heathens in judgement 〈◊〉 That hold and professe the very Doctrines of the heathens That have denied the Lord that bought them That have accounted the preaching of the Gospell foolishnesse That have set up the Dagon of their corrupt and carnall reason in opposition to the holy Arke of God Casting downe the glorious and sacred Truths of Christianity tevealed from heaven clearly recorded in the holy Booke of God and confirmed by the abundant Testimony of God himselfe in many wonderfull and holy miracles and delivered unto us from the best and soundest antiquity even the holy Doctrines of the Divinity of the Son of God and of the holy Ghost The very fundamentall Points upon which all the building of Christianity doth depend and is supporred and in the contradiction whereof that whole frame falls to the ground Casting downe I say these Sacred and awfull Truths to set up the Idols of their depraved ratiocinations in the place thereof And how many more heathens in practice are there amongst us yea even Atheists that are worse than heathens the whole course of whose lives is a current Lecture of Atheisme every Action whereof deth as it were speake blasphemy and saies there is no God no Supreame Power that governeth ruleth the world none to punish Injustice Deceite Rebellion Oppression Uncleannesse nor any wickednesse none to call men to account for their actions And what rest can poore Christians take in such miscreant Society The persecuters of Iudah overtoo●e her between the straites so mournes the holy Prophet for that Nation That is to say they got such power over her such advantage against her that there was no way left for escaping like as when an enemy overtaketh a man in the pursuit of vengeance in a narrow place where there is no space to avoid or flye from the stroke of his fury Put but England for Iudah and the Persecutors and the straites are at home with us They whose mouthes were full heretofore of the clamours against persecution for little else perhaps but because they were not flattered promoted for their factious and seditious practises have now sanctified the name and Office of Persecutors whilst they thinke they doe God service to starve their brethren and fellow-subjects I feare our Saviours Prayer will not serve their turne Father forgive them for they know not what they doe But yet I wish we may all joine to offer up Saint Stephens Prayer for them Lord lay not this sinne to their charge And for our selves Lord lay not this charge for ever upon our sinnes but rid us from them that persecute us and deliver us Yea let us from our hearts pray as the Church of England hath taught us if we may have leave of an Ordinance and Directory That it may please thee to forgive our enemies persecuters and slanderers and to turne their hearts We beseech thee to heare us good Lord. Varse 4. Did the wayer of Sion mourne being left desolate as it were for want of the cheerfull society of passengers to the House of

well as of will to doe it no doubt Not given to wine no striker not greedy of filthy lucre but patient not a brawler or fighter not covetous or how do we find that they do according to the Apostles rule endeavour to approve themselves as the Ministers of God in much patience in afflictions in necessities in distresses in stripes in imprisonments in tumults in labours in watchings in fastings by purenesse by knowledge by long suffering by kindnesse by the holy Ghost by love unfained by the word of truth by the power of God by the Armour of righteousnesse on the right hand and on the left by honor dishonor as deceivers and yet true as unknowne and yet well knowne as dying and yet living as chastened and not killed as sorrowfull yet alway rejoycing as poore yet making many rich c. Blamelesse they are indeed in their own eyes perhaps puffed up as the Pharisee with the windy conceit of their own holinesse canonizing themselves for the only Saints to make roome for whom poore Peter and Paul Iames and Iohn yea and Christ himselfe too must be put out of the Calender of the Church where they may succeed in time in red Letters in bloudy Characters written with the gore of those thousands of Christians who have bin made sacrifices for the consecration of their holinesse But whilst they stile themselves Saints I would they did not prove themselves But the poore Publicans whom they despise who stand afarre off knocking their breasts with a Lord be mercifull unto me a sinner might go home to their houses if they would let them and did not keepe them from them as the purchase of their piety justified in the sight of God rather than they Indeed some of them may be called Saints according to that Hebrew phrase whereby Iobs wife wished him to blesse God that is as it is interpreted to curse him or as the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be holy Is used to signifie the impurest kind of polluted carnalists that make a trade of the vilest sins or as Sacrum in the Latine is used sometimes for Sacrilegum or impium as in the Poet as I remember Ad quid non mortalia pectora cogit Auri sacra fames What wickednesse was ever hatcht within the depth of hell To which the holy love of Gold mens hearts doth not compell That is the unholy love of riches and wealth which is the root of all evill Vigilant they are indeed but to do wickednes like those in the Proverbs They sleepe not except they have done mischiefe and their sleepe is taken away unlesse they cause some to fall They are watchfull as Sathan is watchfull who goeth about like a roaring Lion seeking whom he may devoure If they be sober in regard of wine or strong drinke yet how many of them are drunke with pride intoxicated with the opinion of their carnall security or what is the cause there is such a vertiginous swimming in their braines such reeling too and fro in their unconstancy of opinions and resolutions How come they to thinke there is no Church but what turns round or how few are there that are sober in their judgements in their opinions nay may it not be truly said of many that are taken to be the wisest and the gravest amongst them that they do but cum ratione insanire are but more soberly mad than others for what is it indeed but meere madnesse to thinke to set up the Throne of mercy in bloud to call cruelty piety and to professe Christianity in oppression to thinke to maintaine a reputation of sanctity in themselves by talking of Religion and Godlinesse whilst they are at the same time in their hearts contriving and acting in their outward performances the great and horrid designes of seditious wickednesse Ioabs in practice as well as some of them in profession dealing with Christ as he with Amasa at the same time he gives him a faire salute with his tongue Art thou in health my brother and takes him by the beard with his right hand to kisse him with his lips and with his left hand stabs him under the fifth rib and shed out his bowels to the ground 1 Sam. 20.9 And what did Iudas doe before hee hanged himself And what is it else to give Christ good words to have mouths full of Religion and hearts full of intolerable and diabolicall pride envy malice covetousnesse and ambition yea both hearts and hands full of Bloud Treason Murder and Oppression but is it not pure madnesse to thinke that God will thus be mocked may they be as bold with him as they make with his Annointed Or will he take it well that they shall jeere him with a bended knee but indeed this is scarce allowed him and a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That like those Souldiers in the 15. of Mark. verse 18. They should put a crown of thorns upon his head and then salute him with a haile King of the Iewes That they should at once or in the same breath smite him and spit upon him by those persecutions and contempts those scorns reproaches that they cast upon his poore members and yet pretend to adore and worship him Are wee turned Lucians Iulians porphyries instead of Christians is this sobriety Let them remember what Saint Paul received from heaven for all his strictnesse yet he was in earnest when he was exercised in the busines of cruelty against Gods people all his zeale and mistaken holinesse could not secure him from that terrible voice Saul Saul why persecutest thou me Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsheard covered with silver drosse so saith the wiseman Pro. 26.23 pious and devout discourses are but drossie pigments or varnishes Though we put never so many of them upon earthy and wicked minds God will be cheated with no such ware Hee hath a touchstone that will quickly discover it Not every one that saith unto me Lord Lord saith our Saviour shall enter into the Kingdome of heaven but he that doth the will of my father which is in heaven and what is the will of God Even our Sanctification that our hearts and our actions should be religious as well as our tongues And what is true Religion and undefiled before God To throw downe the Thrones of Princes that they may without controule devoure and oppresse their miserable Subjects To lye and dissemble with God the King and a whole Nation to bring to passe their wicked purposes untill they have got them and then to cancell all their promises and protestations To make wicked Covenants to joyne one another together in sedition making the holy name of God the bond of their hellish and black conspiracies and then when their Idoll-interest prompts them to it to breake them in pieces as Sampson did his new Cords and to become open confessours of Sathan they may have